Making Sense Of Marshall Ledbetter

Author : Daniel M. Harrison
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780813047720

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Making Sense of Marshall Ledbetter by Daniel M. Harrison Pdf

Armed with an empty whiskey bottle and wearing a tie-dyed Jimi Hendrix T-shirt, Florida State University dropout Marshall Ledbetter broke into the Florida State Capitol early one morning in June 1991. He occupied the Sergeant of Arms suite, demanding an extra-large Gumby’s pizza and 666 donuts for the cops waiting outside. He hoped to garner media attention for his protest of poverty, homelessness, and cuts to higher education. After an eight hour standoff, Ledbetter was betrayed by the very media he had counted on to tell his story; his demands were not broadcast on CNN as he had been promised but streamed into the office on closed-circuit TV. Although he left the building peacefully, the ensuing trial, his trips in and out of the state’s mental health institutions over the following decade, and his eventual suicide in 2003 speak to how difficult it is to untangle addiction, isolation, brilliance, and deviance. Ledbetter’s invasion of the Capitol remains the biggest security breach of the building’s history, but Daniel Harrison’s telling of the Ledbetter saga is about more than one misguided young man’s breaking and entering into the state’s most secure building. Making Sense of Marshall Ledbetter thoughtfully and honestly explores the ways society manages deviant people in real world situations and whether or not our law enforcement and justice systems are adequately equipped to handle mental illness.

Author : Harry F. Dahms
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787149809

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The Challenge of Progress by Harry F. Dahms Pdf

Globalization has accelerated the process of social, political, cultural, and especially economic transformations since the 1990s. Examining the choices of modern society, Dahms and contributors ask: what are the social costs of “progress”?

Author : Craig Pittman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781466882171

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Oh, Florida! by Craig Pittman Pdf

A New York Times Bestseller Oh, Florida! That name. That combination of sounds. Three simple syllables, and yet packing so many mixed messages. To some people, it’s a paradise. To others, it’s a punch line. As Oh, Florida! shows, it’s both of these and, more important, it’s a Petri dish, producing trends that end up influencing the rest of the country. Without Florida there would be no NASCAR, no Bettie Page pinups, no Glenn Beck radio rants, no USA Today, no “Stand Your Ground,” . . . you get the idea. To outsiders, Florida seems baffling. It’s a state where the voters went for Barack Obama twice, yet elected a Tea Party candidate as governor. Florida is touted as a carefree paradise, yet it’s also known for its perils-alligators, sinkholes, pythons, hurricanes, and sharks, to name a few. It attracts 90 million visitors a year, some drawn by its impressive natural beauty, others bewitched by its manmade fantasies. Oh, Florida! explores those contradictions and shows how they fit together to make this the most interesting state. It is the first book to explore the reasons why Florida is so wild and weird-and why that’s okay. Florida couldn’t be Florida without that sense of the unpredictable, unexpected, and unusual lurking behind every palm tree. But there is far more to Florida than its sideshow freakiness. Oh, Florida! explains how Florida secretly, subtly influences all the other states in the Union, both for good and for ill.

Author : Daniel M. Harrison
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781643361468

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Live at Jackson Station by Daniel M. Harrison Pdf

The smoke was thick, the music was loud, and the beer was flowing. In the fast-and-loose 1980s, Jackson Station Rhythm & Blues Club in Hodges, South Carolina, was a festive late-night roadhouse filled with people from all walks of life who gathered to listen to the live music of high-energy performers. Housed in a Reconstruction-era railway station, the blues club embraced local Southern culture and brought a cosmopolitan vibe to the South Carolina backcountry. Over the years, Jackson Station became known as one of the most iconic blues bars in the South. It offered an exciting venue for local and traveling musical artists, including Widespread Panic, the Swimming Pool Qs, Bob Margolin, Tinsley Ellis, and R&B legend Nappy Brown, who loved to keep playing long after sunrise. The good times ground to a terrifying halt in the early morning hours of April 7, 1990. A brutal attack—an apparent hate crime—on the owner Gerald Jackson forever altered the lives of all involved. In this fast-paced narrative, Jackson Station emerges as a cultural kaleidoscope that served as an oasis of tolerance and diversity in a time and place that often suffered from undercurrents of bigotry and violence—an uneasy coexistence of incongruent forces that have long permeated southern life and culture.

Author : Robert J. Banks,Bernice M. Ledbetter
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801026904

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Reviewing Leadership by Robert J. Banks,Bernice M. Ledbetter Pdf

Explores the idea of leadership in our culture today and in the past through theological evaluation, theory and practice, and examples of exemplary leaders.

Author : J.M. Cranford
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781973641476

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The Soldiers by J.M. Cranford Pdf

West, Bradford, Hoyt and Salinas have returned home after graduating from their basic training camp into God’s Army with instructions to expect the assistance of an assigned mentor to guide them through their advanced training. Faced with the familiarity of home, each one struggles against the challenge to live as a new creation in Christ. West conquers her resistance against feelings and emotions as she sets out on a global excursion to solidify her call to travel the world and help strengthen the saints. As an employee in the Illinois Department of Corrections, Bradford fights to serve the Lord behind bars. Hoyt faces the real world challenge of adulthood as he finds his place in the work force while still learning how to serve his king. Salinas cannot squelch the call back to his homeland but wonders how his family is going to cooperate. Each of these soldiers lean into the Lord and strengthen their gifts as they discover their purpose for His kingdom. After weathering the storms of their advanced training, these soldiers must now serve out that purpose and become veterans that leave a legacy.

Author : James Ledbetter
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631493966

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One Nation Under Gold: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries by James Ledbetter Pdf

One Nation Under Gold examines the countervailing forces that have long since divided America—whether gold should be a repository of hope, or a damaging delusion that has long since derailed the rational investor. Worshipped by Tea Party politicians but loathed by sane economists, gold has historically influenced American monetary policy and has exerted an often outsized influence on the national psyche for centuries. Now, acclaimed business writer James Ledbetter explores the tumultuous history and larger-than-life personalities—from George Washington to Richard Nixon—behind America’s volatile relationship to this hallowed metal and investigates what this enduring obsession reveals about the American identity. Exhaustively researched and expertly woven, One Nation Under Gold begins with the nation’s founding in the 1770s, when the new republic erupted with bitter debates over the implementation of paper currency in lieu of metal coins. Concerned that the colonies’ thirteen separate currencies would only lead to confusion and chaos, some Founding Fathers believed that a national currency would not only unify the fledgling nation but provide a perfect solution for a country that was believed to be lacking in natural silver and gold resources. Animating the "Wild West" economy of the nineteenth century with searing insights, Ledbetter brings to vivid life the actions of Whig president Andrew Jackson, one of gold’s most passionate advocates, whose vehement protest against a standardized national currency would precipitate the nation’s first feverish gold rush. Even after the establishment of a national paper currency, the virulent political divisions continued, reaching unprecedented heights at the Democratic National Convention in 1896, when presidential aspirant William Jennings Bryan delivered the legendary "Cross of Gold" speech that electrified an entire convention floor, stoking the fears of his agrarian supporters. While Bryan never amassed a wide-enough constituency to propel his cause into the White House, America’s stubborn attachment to gold persisted, wreaking so much havoc that FDR, in order to help rescue the moribund Depression economy, ordered a ban on private ownership of gold in 1933. In fact, so entrenched was the belief that gold should uphold the almighty dollar, it was not until 1973 that Richard Nixon ordered that the dollar be delinked from any relation to gold—completely overhauling international economic policy and cementing the dollar’s global significance. More intriguing is the fact that America’s exuberant fascination with gold has continued long after Nixon’s historic decree, as in the profusion of late-night television ads that appeal to goldbug speculators that proliferate even into the present. One Nation Under Gold reveals as much about American economic history as it does about the sectional divisions that continue to cleave our nation, ultimately becoming a unique history about economic irrationality and its influence on the American psyche.

Author : Norman Dorsen
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814785836

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The Embattled Constitution by Norman Dorsen Pdf

"An indispensable and provocative guide through the thicket of today's most challenging constitutional controversies by some of the most eminent judges of their time. It offers an invaluable peek behind the curtain of judicial decision making." —David Cole, Professor of Law, Georgetown University The Embattled Constitution presents the fourth collection of the James Madison lectures delivered at the NYU School of Law, offering thoughtful examinations of an array of topics on civil liberties by a distinguished group of federal judges, including Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court. The result is a fascinating look into the minds of the judges who interpret, apply, and give meaning to our “embattled Constitution.” In these insightful and incisive essays, the authors bring to bear decades of experience to explore wide-ranging issues. Are today’s public schools racially segregated? To what extent can the federal courts apply the Bill of Rights without legislative guidance? And what are the criteria for the highest standards of judging and constitutional interpretation? The authors also discuss how and why the Constitution came to be embattled, shining a spotlight on the current polarization in both the Supreme Court and the American body politic and offering careful and informed analysis of how to bridge these divides. Contributors include Marsha S. Berzon, Michael Boudin, Stephen Breyer, Guido Calabresi, Robert H. Henry, Robert Katzmann, Pierre N. Leval, M. Blane Michael, Davis S. Tatel, J. Harvie Wilkinson, III, and Diane P. Wood.

Author : United Daughters of the Confederacy. South Carolina Division. Norton Chapter, Walhalla,Robert Thompson Jaynes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Character
ISBN : UGA:32108001279143

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The Confederate Character by United Daughters of the Confederacy. South Carolina Division. Norton Chapter, Walhalla,Robert Thompson Jaynes Pdf

Author : Philip K. Howard
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780812982749

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The Death of Common Sense by Philip K. Howard Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “We need a new idea of how to govern. The current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice.” So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of Common Sense. Here Howard offers nothing less than a fresh, lucid, practical operating system for modern democracy. America is drowning—in law, lawsuits, and nearly endless red tape. Before acting or making a decision, we often abandon our best instincts. We pause, we worry, we equivocate, and then we divert our energy into trying to protect ourselves. Filled with one too many examples of bureaucratic overreach, The Death of Common Sense demonstrates how we—and our country—can at last get back on track.

Author : Billy Bragg
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571327768

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Roots, Radicals and Rockers by Billy Bragg Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZERoots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World is the first book to explore this phenomenon in depth - a meticulously researched and joyous account that explains how skiffle sparked a revolution that shaped pop music as we have come to know it. It's a story of jazz pilgrims and blues blowers, Teddy Boys and beatnik girls, coffee-bar bohemians and refugees from the McCarthyite witch-hunts. Billy traces how the guitar came to the forefront of music in the UK and led directly to the British Invasion of the US charts in the 1960s.Emerging from the trad-jazz clubs of the early '50s, skiffle was adopted by kids who growing up during the dreary, post-war rationing years. These were Britain's first teenagers, looking for a music of their own in a pop culture dominated by crooners and mediated by a stuffy BBC. Lonnie Donegan hit the charts in 1956 with a version of 'Rock Island Line' and soon sales of guitars rocketed from 5,000 to 250,000 a year. Like punk rock that would flourish two decades later, skiffle was a do-it-yourself music. All you needed were three guitar chords and you could form a group, with mates playing tea-chest bass and washboard as a rhythm section.

Author : Mark David Ledbetter
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781411628939

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America's Forgotten History: Part One. Foundations by Mark David Ledbetter Pdf

Author : David James Poissant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476729961

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The Heaven of Animals by David James Poissant Pdf

A first collection by an award-winning writer features characters at relationship crossroads in such stories as "Lizard Man," in which two men race to save a sick alligator; and "The End of Aaron," in which a girl helps her boyfriend face his greatest fears.

Author : Tennessee. General Assembly. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Tennessee
ISBN : UIUC:30112108189306

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Senate Journal by Tennessee. General Assembly. Senate Pdf

Includes regular and extra sessions.

Author : Liza Mundy
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316352550

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Code Girls by Liza Mundy Pdf

The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a "prodigiously researched and engrossing" (New York Times) book that "shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history" (Denver Post). Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them. A strict vow of secrecy nearly erased their efforts from history; now, through dazzling research and interviews with surviving code girls, bestselling author Liza Mundy brings to life this riveting and vital story of American courage, service, and scientific accomplishment.